St Louis Church, Mundamveli

St. Louis Church (Saanthiyago Church) is located in Mundamveli, Kochi in the Indian state of Kerala. It is 9 km from the Ernakulam Junction railway station and 42 km from Cochin International Airport. It is one of the oldest and most popular churches in Kerala and the 3rd Parish in Kochi, after Edakochi and Mattancherry.

History

The first church was originally constructed by Saint Thomas Christians of Maanaanjery near the Arabian Sea in the 9th century.

The church was dedicated to St. Mary. The church was located 4 km from south-west location of today's St. Michael's church Maanaassery. Today this place is popularly known as Maanaassery.

At that time there were only three parishes in Kochi: north-east side Mattanchery Our Lady Of Life Church, east side Edakochi St. Lawrence Church and Our Parish church.

In the 14th century the church was destroyed by sea erosion and still under water.

In AD 1498 Portuguese missionaries arrived in the land. They built a new church and they changed the name to "St. Louis" It was the second Parish church of Mundamveli.

In the 17th century the church was again destroyed by the sea erosion.

In 1605 these Syrian Churches like Edakochi, Mattanchery and Mundamveli were converted to Latin Rite.

In the 19th century another church was established near the Arabian Sea. But in 1808 it was burnt by the soldiers of the king of Kochi. After that incident, in 1850 parishioners built a small church in Cemetery. This is the fourth church. This church is presently used as the cemetery church. At that time the parish vicar was very confused about the continued flood and these kind of incidents and he was suffered how to overcome the situation. In his mind it was very difficult to find a place to built a new church. At that time the government offered the land to build a new church in Mundamveli farm. The 5th parish church was inaugurated on 20 June 1868, as the fifth church.

In 1997, the church was renovated for its 130th anniversary. In earlier years St. Louis Parish was the biggest parish in Kochi. Later 1) Chellaanam St. Sebastians' (1832), 2) Thoppumpady St. Sebastian's (1833), 3) Maanaassery St. Michael's (1870), 4) Kannamaly St. Antony's (1873), 5) Cheriyakadavu St.Joseph's (1965), 6) Chirackal St.Joseph's (1968), 7) Kaattiparambu St. Francis Assisi's (1980), 8) Santhome St. Thomas (1990) parishes were separated from Mundamveli parish.

Festivals

The biggest celebration of this church is the feast of St. Jacob (called Santhyapunnyalan by the people of Mundamveli), celebrated every 30 December. Thousands of believers coming from different parts of India

Other feasts celebrated include:

St. Sebastian - January, 2nd Sunday
St. Franciss Xavier - 1 May Sunday
St. Francis of Asissi - 1 August Sunday
St. Louis - 21 June
Sacred Heart - June, last Sunday
St. Jacob - 30 December
Our Lady Of Nativity - 8 September
Infant Jesus - October, 1st Sunday
Our Lady of Presentation - 21 November
St. Teresa - October 1

References

External links

St.Louis Church – Mundamvely at catholicchurches.in

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